4. You can extract the tar.gz file and then upload to web server overwriting what’s there.

You can extract it first locally using 7-zip which will give you a tar file and then extract again the tar file to give you a folder (in our case “drupal-8.0.1”) containing the new Drupal version.

5. Re-apply any changes that you might have made previously to any of the files.

6. Sometime a new release will change the “sites/default/settings.php”. You can compare your webhost version of “sites/default/settings.php” with new release “sites/default/default.settings.php” and merge in any changes.